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"Millions of African Climate Refugees Desperate for Food, Water"

"NAIROBI, Kenya -- The worst drought in 60 years is causing a severe food crisis in East Africa. In Kenya, the world's largest refugee camp is overwhelmed as 10,000 climate refugees from across the drought-stricken region arrive each week seeking water, food and shelter.

'The overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa continues to receive new arrivals at alarming rates. The current number of registered refugees, 353,921, is four times its capacity,' the UN's humanitarian affairs agency said Thursday. 'Twenty thousand people have arrived in the last two weeks alone.'

The influx of Somalis into refugee camps in the Dadaab area of Kenya's North-Eastern province has led to worsening overcrowding amid limited resources.